This is perhaps a question of strategy more than anything else. I am new to version control and I guess I should count myself lucky to have relatively more mature systems like Mercurial and Git at my ...

We are trying to implement a branch model in Mercurial.
We have read the "Successful GIT branching model" and I proposed another, based on branched version numbers.
Then I ended accepting the model ...

I have a central codebase, from which I branch subprojects for each client.
Right now I have the central codebase in mercurial repo A and client specific code in mercurial repo B, C, D... etc. I would ...

I work in embedded systems. Right now, my organization has two full-time programmers and two occasional programmers. It's rare that the same project is worked on by two programmers. All code is stored ...

This is a question about the internal workings of Mercurial.
I vaguely remember a fellow programmer explaining to me how mercurial works out which changesets differ between two repositories and that ...

Here is the scenario:
X is the author of a software. X releases v1.0 on an open source license on Github and moves on. People interested in the software fork and improve the software. Now there are ...

So I mainly use Mercurial for my projects and I decided to sit down and learn all Git's shenanigans to discover if I'm in the right side (at least for me).
I'm learning that git uses namespaces for ...

I've seen some people love and some loathe Perforce. As users or administrators with experience with other version control systems (free cookie to the ones with DVCS experience [git, Mercurial]), what ...

Both Mercurial and BitBucket make one fundamental assumption: 1 repo = 1 project.
If I have a project that has a dependency (a library) which is shared by many projects, this assumption gets in the ...

So, I have this little debate at work where some of my colleagues (which are actually in charge of administrating our Perforce instance) say that workflows are strictly a process thing, and that the ...

I've just started at a new job this past month and looks like they have NO source control for their code. They are relying on the backups their hosting provider takes for them.
After talking a bit I ...

I'm working on a project which uses GIT as the main version control system for trunk, the official branches and most sub-projects/unofficial branches. As such, I want to make my own branch use GIT to ...

I'm very new to source control management and one thing puzzles me: is it possible to search through the whole repository for a string? For example I'm tracking one file, which has 100 commits and I ...

I've always used git before, but I want to contribute to python so now I have to learn mercurial and I find it very frustrating.
So, I've made a couple of small patches and I wanted to track them as ...

I'm a Rails developer and I prefer Mercurial over Git. However, I know that the Rails community is very pro-Git. So my question is it possible that my choice of version control system would turn back ...

I have a web app thats been in active development for about 8 months now and its becoming apparent that the project has a need to maintain a separation between app specific code and our OO Javascript ...

Background
I've used VCS (mainly git) in the past to manage many existing projects and it works great. Typically with an existing project, I would check in each change I make to the code that either ...

Researching distributed source control management (specifically mercurial).
My question is more or less what is the best practice for rejecting entire sets of code that fail testing?
Example:
A team ...

I've always agreed with Mercurial's mantra 1, however, now that Mercurial comes bundled with the rebase extension and it is a popular practice in git, I'm wondering if it could really be regarded as a ...

So, I'm preparing to consider the outcome of training a lot of people (>25) to use Mercurial coming from a centralized mindset. I've done it with individuals and had success with it, although the time ...